Ashya's paternal grandmother, Patricia King, said his parents were "wonderful" and had been left beside themselves at their child's plight.
Instead, investigators believe he climbed onto the roof by scaling some crates that had been left beside a cooler outside the eatery.
Their old, infuriating second cars were left parked beside our road, and never mind the cracked tail-light or the lack of a muffler.
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But that word was, in a way, a source of comfort to Michele and Diego — it meant that they were leaving, leaving the anguish of living beside death, leaving Snakeskin and his ambiguity, leaving these familiar places that were teeming with traps.
Where there should be something — a pilot, or a marriage — there is nothing, until Colin, standing in the visitors' garden of a grand house, is left almost literally beside himself, like an insect having molted its shell, struggling "to hold on, if possible, to whatever might be left of his own mere being".
Instructions for feeding the piranha had been left on the counter beside the sink.
An orange bag containing the pipe bomb had been left on the street beside the driver's side door, and Mr. Halberstam apparently moved it with his foot as he prepared to unlock the car door.
Little Maxwell was left lost, alone and helpless beside the busy Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a six-lane stretch of road that slices through the heart of Philadelphia and a stone's throw from the steps Sylvester Stallone would immortalise in the Rocky movies.
Besides, nothing is left in Syria – our houses in Yarmouk [a Syrian-Palestinian refugee settlement near Damascus] were destroyed".
